Dennis Yi Tenen on his book Literary Theory of Robots: How Computers Learned to Write

In this podcast Prof Dennis Yi Tenen, a software engineer turned literary scholar, leans on history of computer programming to tell modern tales of Artificial Intelligence. How did robots learn to write so quickly? Is it a good thing? Do technologies like ChatGPT make us lazy? Not quite, says Prof Tenen. He argues that such advances do not diminish our capacity to think. It may just make us better writers, on an average. Previously machines learned from human outputs but now they learn from machine outputs. What does this mean for us? He believes AI is neither Jesus nor a Terminator-like force as long as both the makers and users use it responsibly.

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Dennis Yi Tenen on his book Literary Theory of Robots: How Computers Learned to Write is an episode from The Point Blank Show by Indicast.

This episode is 51:04 long.

This episode was published on Mar 27, 2024.

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